So Ars Technica had an article on a recent conference hosted by Vice President Biden. The conference brought together content companies and federal law enforcement to discuss “ways to combat piracy in this rapidly changing technological age”. Interestingly enough no one from the community or academics where invited. It seems every time [...]

Declan McCullagh over at CNET is reporting that one of two recent picks by President Elect Obama are RIAA attorney’s. I think this is an interesting blow to the Digg heads and RIAA opponents that supported Obama.
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the “free culture” movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, [...]

Engadget is reporting that RIAA president Cary Sherman said that ripping was ok and that the RIAA has never gone after anyone for ripping CDs. Instead their investigations have focused on those who are sharing via P2P services. In regards to the comments made by Sony BMG counsel during the Jammie Thomas trial: [...]

According to a blog post over on the CNET News Blog. Jammie Thomas the first person to have their case heard before a court lost her attorney during her appeal. Apparently she hasn’t sold enough thongs, t-shirts and other crap on her website to afford her attorney and he is unwilling to proceed [...]

The RIAA in a recent court case reiterated their past claims that ripping songs or making a copy of a CD for your own use that you own is stealing. Clearly this seems wrong to me. The RIAA chooses to live in this pretend world where the recording industry can make music on [...]